1) Japanese Government Scholarship Students (selection before arrival to Japan)

a) Embassy recommendation:

MEXT requests diplomatic missions overseas to recommend students for scholarships. Because recruitment periods differ according to each country, please check with the diplomatic missions in your own country. The scheduled period of arrival in Japan for undergraduate students is April, and April or October for Graduate-level Research Students. In order to be assured of admission to NITech, Research Students must obtain a Letter of Acceptance from a faculty member at our Institute. Please make preliminary contact with a faculty member at our Institute to receive the Letter of Acceptance.

Candidates are recruited by diplomatic missions overseas and recommended to MEXT, which makes a selection through a selection committee, and then submits requests to each of the universities to accept admission of the selected recipients. In principle, International Research Students are required to attend a preparatory education course for six months after arrival prior to enrollment.

Undergraduate Students are required to take a preparatory education class at a Japanese language or other preparatory education institute for one year after arrival prior to enrollment, and may enroll in April of the following year.

Fig.1

Process for Recruiting and Selecting Government-funded International Students through Embassy Recommendation

1st year

Feb to Mar

Official announcement of application

Deadline for Japanese Government Scholarship Application

May to Oct

1st Selection & Final Selection by Embassy/ MEXT

2nd year

February

Final result from MEXT

April

Preparatory education class / Enroll as a Research student

3rd year

April

Enroll as a Regular student

* This schedule depends on the Embassy or Consular Office.

b) University Recommendation

International students coming to study in Japan from institutions that have concluded an International Academic Exchange Agreement with the NITech are recommended by our Institute to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, which selects the recipients after conducting a selection process. Arrival in Japan is in October.

Fig. 2

Process for Recruiting and Selecting Government-funded International Students through University Recommendation

1st year

December

Official announcement of application

2nd year

January

Deadline for Japanese Government Scholarship Application

June

Final result from MEXT

October

Enroll as a Research student

3rd year

April

Enroll as a Regular student

* The date of deadline may be changed.

Note: An applicant cannot apply for both the (a) Embassy Recommendation and the (b) University Recommendation at the same time.

2) Japanese Government Scholarship Students (selection after arrival to Japan)

Privately financed students enrolled in, or planning to enroll in, graduate degree programs are eligible to apply for a limited number of Japanese government scholarships each April.

Every September, university presidents and faculty deans are notified with regard to candidates. Scholarship recipients receive both a monthly stipend and travel expenses for returning home.

Attention

International students with a Japanese government scholarship receive a monthly stipend. It is important that you open a Japan Post Bank account at the post office as soon as you arrive in Japan. Opening an account at the Nagoya University Hospital Post Office takes little time, so please do so as soon as possible.

In order to receive your scholarship funds, there is paperwork at the International Student Affairs Office that you must sign on the first of every month (or the second or third if the first falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday). Please do not forget to do this every month.

If you temporarily leave Japan and are away for the entire month, you will be unable to receive your scholarship money for that month.